scholarly journals EFL Learners’ Self-Perceptions of TOEIC Classes Based on the Pass/Non-pass Evaluation System: Focusing on a Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
정영경 ◽  
Yousun Shin
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Perceptions

scholarly journals Gender-Typed Sport Practice, Physical Self-Perceptions, and Performance-Related Emotions in Adolescent Girls

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8518
Author(s):  
Milena Morano ◽  
Claudio Robazza ◽  
Montse C. Ruiz ◽  
Stefania Cataldi ◽  
Francesco Fischetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Sport Practice ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Aesthetic Sports

Youth sport experience provides opportunities for physical, personal, and social development in youngsters. Sport is a social system in which socially constructed gender differences and stereotypes are incorporated, and specific sport activities are often perceived as gender characterized. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between some salient physical and emotional self-perceptions and the type of sport practiced. A sample of 261 female athletes, aged 14–21 years (Mage = 15.59, SD = 2.00), practicing different sports, categorized as feminine (e.g., artistic and rhythmic gymnastics), masculine (e.g., soccer and rugby), or neutral (e.g., track and field and tennis), took part in a cross-sectional study. Significant differences were observed between aesthetic sports and other types of sports. Athletes involved in aesthetic sports reported the lowest values in their feelings of confidence and the highest values in feelings of worry related to competition. This may be attributed to the evaluation system of aesthetic sports, in which the athlete’s performance is evaluated by a jury. At the same time, they reported low values of dysfunctional psychobiosocial states associated with their general sport experience, likely because of their physical appearance close to the current body social standards for girls. Notwithstanding the differences by type of sport, athletes of all disciplines reported high mean values of functional psychobiosocial states, suggesting that their overall sporting experience was good.

scholarly journals Shadowing English suprasegmentals for developing EFL learners' listening comprehension and speech intelligibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayman Elesery
Keyword(s):  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Systematic Pattern ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
Listening And Speaking

<p>The study reports on a group of EFL learners studying listening and speaking intensive course at Qassim University, KSA. The study reports on engaging the sample of the study in awareness-raising and practicing suprasegmentals of the English language. For achieving the objectives of the study and raising the participants’ self-perceptions and efficacy in listening comprehension, and speech intelligibility a shadowing technique was implemented. The shadowing cycle is a comprehensive one built upon cognitive and technical norms. Results of the study showed a systematic pattern of participants and endorsement for native speakers, improvement in their perceptions of suprasegmentals, and listening comprehension as well. Furthermore, results revealed the participants’ familiarity with suprasegmentals and their ability to implement them in their oracy.</p>

The Achievement Motivation Enhancement Curriculum: Evaluating an Affective Intervention For Gifted Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 1932202X2110574
Author(s):  
Ophélie A. Desmet ◽  
Nielsen Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Summer Program ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Motivation Enhancement ◽  
Regulation Strategies

The present qualitative pilot study aimed to evaluate students’ perceptions of procedures and outcomes from an affective intervention to increase achievement motivation among gifted students. The intervention was implemented at a summer program with 20 students. Using inductive analysis, participants’ perceptions of the intervention and its effects were evaluated. This study’s findings show most students enjoyed the Achievement Motivation Enhancement sessions and felt they benefited from talking about their experiences with peers in small groups. Students discussed improved self-perceptions and said they benefitted from learning goal valuation, goal-setting, and self-regulation strategies. Implications are discussed.

scholarly journals The Acquisition of Parameters for Word Stress Production and Perception among Iraqi EFL Learners: A Pilot Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Zainab A. Ali ◽  
Alias Abd Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Production Test ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
Stress Placement

<div><p><em>This study investigates the acquisition of the parameters of word stress production and perception by 10 Iraqi learners of English as a foreign language (EFL)</em><em>. It aims at investigating Iraqi learners’ difficulties in resetting the parameters of word stress production and perception in L2. Two experiments are conducted to test the learners’ production and perception of word stress in isolation and in sentences. The first experiment is the production test and the second one is the perception test. The learners’ responses of word stress in both experimental tasks are elicited manually and analysed according to [7]</em><em> model of metrical parameters</em><em>   which is used </em><em>to investigate</em><em> the acquisition of parameters of word stress production and perception by Iraqi learners</em><em>. The findings</em><em> reveal that </em><em>Iraqi EFL learners are able to reset the parameters of L2 but even though they failed in resetting all the parameters completely. Besides, the learners used more ranking level kinds of the parameters in the perception task than in the production task which may cause Iraqi learners assign wrongly the word stress placement.</em></p></div>

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